History Department Meeting

History Department Meeting 10-6-15

Our first campus-wide department meeting will take place Tuesday, October 6, 2015 from 8:00 to 9:29.  The meeting will begin in the lecture hall from 8:00-8:30 where as a group we will review some key information regarding curriculum, literacy and goals.  At 8:30 we will organize into our content groups and work in the library on establishing interventions for our identified learner centered problems.  

During the meeting students in our courses will be administered assessments.  Grade 10 students in US I & US II will take a diagnostic MCAS prompt on Boss Tweed.  The link to the assessment is here.  The prompt begins on page 33 (29 on the test) if you scroll down.  Grades 11 & 12 students will take an SAT essay prompt on Martin Luther King and his views on the Vietnam War.  While this prompt is difficult it is a good indicator of what we need to do to better prepare students for college readiness.  The essay prompt is here.  

Andrea Gobbi worked on a new graphic organizer that students with an IEP may use on the MCAS.  The document is shown below.  If you want you may have your students use the graphic organizer on the test if it is applicable to them.

I will be sending out an agenda for the meeting on Monday, October 5th to everyone.  Please be on the lookout for this.  All principals and APs have been notified regarding coverage for that day.